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...Excerpt: Four years ago--in 1874--two young Englishmen had occasion to go to the United States. They crossed the ocean at midsummer, and, arriving in New York on the first day of August, were much struck with the fervid temperature of that city. Disembarking upon the wharf, they climbed into one of those huge hi...

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...ty is an equal opportunity university. 3 Henry James PART I F our years ago—in 1874—two young Englishmen had ... ... said Lord Lambeth. 11 Henry James Mr. Westgate stared and laughed. “Oh, no, of course you don’t like the gnats. We shall expect you to like a good m... ...ear, no,” said the young Englishman; “my cousin was coming over on some business, so I just came across, at an hour’s notice, for the lark.” “Is it yo... ...“What do you mean by that?” asked his kinsman. “I am as good a man as Littledale.” “My dear boy, I hope you won’t begin to flirt,” said Percy Beaumont... ... insatiable, and, grateful in general for all her opportunities, she especially prized the privilege of meeting certain celebrated persons—au- thors a...

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...war, the smash-up of civilization is inevitable. It is chaos or the United States of the World for mankind. There is no other choice. Ten years have b... ...ngs, no bills. “I’m on, Bert,” he said. “Right 0!” said Bert, and, “Now we shan’t be long.” “We needn’t start without capital neither,” said Grubb. “I... ... equipment and military efficiency. The great powers were first the United States, a nation ad- dicted to commerce, but roused to military necessities... ...British Empire were France and its allies, the Latin powers, heavily armed states indeed, but reluctant warriors, and in many ways socially and politi... ...hese porten- tous larger bulks, swayed and threatened by them, the smaller states of the world maintained a precarious independence, each keeping itse... ...he room. 76 The War in the Air “Butteridge! Shall I try to keep it up, or shan’t I?” The room he was in puzzled him. “’Tisn’t a prison and ’tisn’t a ... ...the engine,” said the compact young man approvingly. “Now 77 H G Wells we shan’t be long.” Another long listening interval. The cabin swayed. “By Jov... ...y’re all going south-west by south at full pelt as hard as they can go. We shan’t see a bit of it, worse luck! Not a sniff we shan’t get!” 2 2 2 2 2 T... ...se on your face, and here was that fool going about with matches—” “Gaw! I shan’t forget that bit in a ‘urry,” said Bert irrel- evantly. Kurt did not ...

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...against the door and dropped to the ground with its ribbon band half off. “Shan’t go out!” he said, and sticking his hands into his jacket pockets dis... ...inac- cessible perhaps, but still somewhere, were pure and easy and joyous states of body and mind. He would sneak out on moonless winter nights and s... ... would work out always at cold beef and pickles, or fried ham and eggs and shandygaff, two pints of beer and two bottles of ginger beer foaming in a h... ...might lend it on mortgage,” said Johnson. “Very safe form of investment.” “Shan’t think anything about it—not till the O’ Man’s un- derground,” said M... ... said, and could have bitten out his tongue at the Larkins sound of it. “I shan’t forget it,” she remarked consolingly. “I say,” she said in the pause... ...fierce sort of garden. Earnest industry. Anxious moments. Fervous digging. Shan’t go in for that sort of garden, ma’am. No! Too much back- ache for me... ...rinkle the kink in her brow at his presence, giving her- self up to mental states that had a quality of secret preoccupa- tion. And she developed an i... ... towards petty bankruptcy and imprisonment for debt go on, and there is no statesmanship in us to avert it. Every issue of every trade journal has its...

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...the middle of the ball-room floor and put his arm about her waist. “Now we shan’t have to talk,” he said, smiling into her can- did eyes, as they floa... ...u must stay and see Sillerton Jackson when he comes this evening: I really shan’t know what to say to him.” “Poor mother! But he won’t come—” her son ... ...o was the legal conscience of the Mingotts. “Y ou may be sure, sir, that I shan’t commit myself till I’ve reported to you; what I meant was that I’d r... ...s. van der Luyden has driven over to see her old aunts at Rhinebeck and we shan’t be missed at the house for another hour.” He followed her into the n... ... keep you from your friends.” She smiled a little under her wet lashes. “I shan’t be lonely now. I was lonely; I was afraid. But the emptiness and the... ...ding out when they were to pass through London on their way to or from the States. The intimacy be- came indissoluble, and Mrs. Archer and Janey, when... ... calendar surmounted by the rugged features of the President of the United States. That such a conversation should be going on anywhere within the mil... ...eing as simple as that.” Archer looked back to the President of the United States, and then down at his desk and at the papers scattered on it. For a ...

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...d to be nasty to me. My only interest is in your doing what she wants. You shan’t be so beastly poor, my darling,” Mr. Croy declared, “if I can help i... ...of doing something base.” “Then what can be so base as sacrificing me?” “I shan’t sacrifice you. Don’t cry out till you’re hurt. I shall sacrifice nob... ...r twenty weeks to America. The idea of a series of letters from the United States from the strictly social point of view had for some time been nursed... ...that was just what they wanted; and it would take more than all the United States together, visit them each as he might, to let him down. It was just ... ...ou know what that is! And then,” Densher added, “there’ll be yours.” “Oh I shan’t leave mine on the hall-table. I shall post them myself.” He looked a... ...ight again have just waited. “Of course it’s straighter. Don’t be afraid I shan’t be straight. Address me,” she continued, “where you like. I shall be... ...ea of her own, her superior policy, she won’t ask me. She’ll let me off. I shan’t have to lie to her.” “It will be left all to me?” asked Kate. “All t... ...ine would be. It would be to take for granted she must wish to hear of the States, and to give her in its order everything he had seen and done there.... ...immense and unconscious advantage. She had really never cared less for the States than at this moment; but that had nothing to do with the matter. It ...

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...ving a husband. But since a woman can’t show off in that way by herself, I shan’t marry — at least yet.’ ‘That’s a terrible wooden story!’ At this cri... ...estion. I suppose ye’ll say next I be no age at all to speak of?’ ‘Sure we shan’t,’ said Gabriel, soothingly. ‘Ye be a very old aged person, malter,’ ... ...e all of us as good as in the county gaol till to morrow morning.’ ‘Then I shan’t see you till then!’ The words were in a faltering tone of disap poi... ...er’s and draper’s no more. ‘I’ve been through it, Liddy, and it is over. I shan’t mind it again, for they will all have grown accustomed to seeing me ... ..., I hear?’ ‘Too many by half. Yes; ’tis a very queer lambing this year. We shan’t have done by Lady Day.’ ‘And last year ’twer all over by Sexajessami... ... thing to be clever, I’m sure,’ he added, making movements associated with states of mind rather than body; ‘we wish we were, don’t we, neighbours?’ ‘... ...ted, his clothes were gone. He ultimately worked his passage to the United States, where he made a precarious living in various towns as Professor of ...

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...are affable. I had but recently had an encounter with an imported Colonial statesman, who was being adver- tised like a soap as the coming saviour of ... ...able of understand- ing. But one could as soon have talked with one of the states- men at Madame T ussaud’s. An antiquated figure. The effect of these... ...that level might be as tedious as the South African war. But if the United States preferred to go into Mexican affairs with what I may perhaps call a ... ...e capable of going to war without the connivance and help of manufacturing states than horses are capable of fly- ing. And this makes possible such a ... ...g. And this makes possible such a complete control of war by the few great states which are at the necessary level of industrial development as not th... ..., “a good salary,” and that now he was gong to grant himself a pension. “I shan’t interfere any more. I shall come right away and live in Europe for a...

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...er has so vast a drainage basin: it draws its water supply from twenty eight States and T erritories; from Dela ware, on the Atlantic seaboard, and f... ...e in the New Orleans ‘Times Democrat,’ based upon reports of able engineers, states that the river annually empties four hundred and six million tons ... ...te man who ever saw the Mississippi River, saw it in 1542, is a remark which states a fact without interpreting it: it is something like giv ing the ... ...ound for Cairo,— whence the negro will seek freedom in the heart of the free States. But in a fog, they pass Cairo without knowing it. By and by they ... ...ow about these chutes. Are there many of them?” “I should say so. I fancy we shan’t run any of the river this trip as you’ve ever seen it run before—s... ... yards away. I said to poor Kruger— “Put up your watch, I don’t want it. You shan’t come to any harm. Go, now; I must tell Adler his fortune. Presentl... ...Didn’t leave hide nor hair, shred nor shingle of it, except the fag end of a shanty and one brick chimney. This boat is pad dling along right now, wh... ...ed up, vanished, gone to feed the fishes; noth ing left but a fragment of a shanty and a crumbling brick chimney! Chap Chap Chap Chap Chapt t t t ter... ... we sailed. My cattle culture and cattle enthusiasm have served their turn—I shan’t need them any more.” Next day we reluctantly parted from the ‘Gold...